This New Tool Can Retrieve Pixelated Text from Redacted Documents

The practice of blurring out text using a method called pixelation may not be as secure as previously thought. While the most foolproof way of concealing sensitive textual information is to use opaque black bars, other redaction methods like pixelation can achieve the opposite effect, enabling th...

Depix - Recovers Passwords From Pixelized Screenshots

Depix is a tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots. This implementation works on pixelized images that were created with a linear box filter. In this article I cover background information on pixelization and similar research. Example python depix.py -p...